[Interest] Unassigned bug report

[Adam Light]

In my experience, bugs that start out unassigned never end up getting
triaged, and thus fixed (granted, a small sample size).

I realize that someone *could* work on a bug that's unassigned.

Adam

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com>
wrote:

> On Tuesday 09 June 2015 12:49:02 Adam Light wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > There's a bug report (https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-46546) that
> I'm
> > interested in but it is unassigned. I assume that the component chosen
> had
> > nobody set as the automatic assignee. Could someone with the appropriate
> > permissions assign the bug so it can at least be triaged.
>
> Bugs don't need to be assigned to be triaged.
>
> Assigning is only required when someone takes responsibility for fixing it
> (usually when they start doing it or they know that they will work on it
> soon[ish]). It's an indication to others that they don't need to look into
> fixing this issue.
>
> Unassigned issues are open to anyone for fixing.
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
>   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
>
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